Maximize Screen Display

The default display is shown here:

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The display can be maximized to this.

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Gone are the Menu Bar (at the top), the Status Bar (at the bottom) and the Toolbar.

Loss of the Toolbar? Not really … just click on the icon in the upper left corner to display the Toolbar for a specified time.

And the location, COG and SOG that are displayed in the Status Bar can be displayed on the Dashboard plugin.

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SETTINGS

The settings to maximize the display are on Options/User Interface page.

I prefer to increase the Toolbar auto-hide time to 4 sec ILO the default of 2 sec.

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CAUTION: Do not check the ‘Enable Touchscreen interface’. A bug In OpenCPN 4.6.1 will cause the chart ‘piano keys’ to sometimes turn black.

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Terry Sargent 14 May 2017